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Meet the Executive Directors
Meet the executive directors of the 16 Student Success Centers nationwide. Check out each ED's areas of expertise below for ideas on what to connect with each person about.
Arizona
Andrew Clegg
- Economic Development - Business Retention and Expansion
- Workforce Development
- Business Development
- Community Development
- Grant Management
Andrew.Clegg@azcss.org
Arkansas
Mike Leach
- Basic skills instruction and developmental education redesign
- Serving low income populations through holistic support services
- Guided pathways implementation
- Math pathways implementation
- Linking institutional change to state policy change
mleach@aatyc.org
California
Sandy Fried
- Public policy development and advocacy
- Coalition building and partnership. development
- Organizational development
sfried@foundationccc.org
Connecticut
Greg DeSantis
- Financial aid
- State and national policy
- Shared governance
- Enrollment management
GDeSantis@commnet.edu
Florida
Abbey Ivey
- Postsecondary access, articulation, and transfer
- Academic pathways and student success
- Acceleration mechanisms, including dual enrollment and prior learning assessment
- State policy analysis and implementation
Abbey.Ivey@fldoe.org
Hawai'i
Cathy Bio
- Implementation and management of system-wide student success initiatives
- Student Affairs and Financial Aid
- Strategic Planning
cbio@hawaii.edu
Michigan
Erica Orians
- Institutional research and longitudinal data analysis
- Student affairs and academic advising
- Rural community colleges
eorians@mcca.org
New Jersey
Jacob Farbman
- Fundraising
- State Policy
- Trustee Governance
- Strategic Communication
jfarbman@njccc.org
New York
Jennifer Miller
- Managing and scaling system-wide community college student success reforms
- Non-academic integrated student support initiatives
- Workforce, career, and economic development
- Community college leadership search expertise
- Marketing and communications
- Advocacy, business development, and business partnerships
jennifer.miller@suny.edu
North Carolina
Susan Barbitta
- Math faculty member
- Guided Pathways implementer and advisor
- Multiple measures researcher
- Leader in developmental education reform
- Military credit for prior learning developer
- Career-and-College-Ready graduate alignment partnership expert
barbittas@nccommunitycolleges.edu
Ohio
Laura Rittner
- Guided pathways implementation
- Institutional research and data analysis
- Coaching
- Outcomes-based funding
- State and institutional policy
lrittner@ohiocc.org
Oregon
Elizabeth Cox Brand
- Public policy development and advocacy
- Communications and research
- Student services and enrollment management
- Multiple measures for placement
- Student affairs and academic advising
- Developmental education reform
elizabeth@occa17.com
Texas
Cynthia Ferrell
- Guided Pathways
- Coaching
- Trustee training
- Developmental education
- Student success courses
- Educational administration
cferrell@tacc.org
Virginia
Laura Clark
- Coaching and Non-academic supports
- First-generation student experience and success
- Cross cultural communication and education
- Professional development strategies
LClark@vccs.edu
Washington
Kristi Wellington-Baker
kwellingtonbaker@sbctc.edu
Wisconsin
Terese Craig
- Student Affairs
- Holistic Student Development
- Academic Support
- College & Community Partnerships
terese.craig@wtcsystem.edu
Wisconsin
Chrystal Seeley-Schreck
- Inclusive education, in higher education, non-formal education and agency settings
- Sustainability and equity in education
- Human ecology, culture, and sustainable community development
